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How To Measure A Church’s Health Without Using Numbers
Pastor Resources · The Healthy Church Log One of the biggest challenges for any church is to figure out how to measure healthfulness. The usual default is to count attendance figures. But the number of church attenders was never the best measure of church...
Financial Decisions Pastors Need to Make During COVID-19 Shutdowns
Pastor Resources · Financial Decisions Pastors Need To Make During COVID - 19 Shutdowns With the novel coronavirus shutting down nearly every church in the country, pastors are facing difficult financial challenges. Congregants may be giving less during this...
Left Behind by a Prodigal Child
Pastor Resources · Left Behond By A Prodigal Child There has been much written about the exodus of Millennials from the church. But I haven’t seen much discussion about the effect of that exodus on those they’ve left behind; specifically, the parents who sought to...
10 ways to bond as a family
Pastor Resources · 10 Ways To Bond As A Family None of us really expected that we would be indoors together, not really having human contact with other people and it can be really hard, for so many reasons. It’s easy to go to social media and vent about how...
Christian Educators, We Are Called to Such a Time as This
Pastor Resources · Christian Educators, We Are Called to Such a Time as This With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world as we know it has turned upside down in just a matter of weeks, leaving educators across the country scrambling to provide content and...
Pastoring During COVID-19:
Pastor Resources · Pastoring Durring Covid - 19 COVID-19 burst onto the global scene out of nowhere. Well, not out of nowhere. However, in terms of the things you expected to experience in 2020, yes, it figuratively burst onto the scene out of nowhere. Then within...
More Than Maintenance: Four Essential Characteristics Of A Healthy Church Culture
Pastor Resources · Four Essential Characteristics Of A Healthy Church Culture What are the characteristics of a church with a healthy culture? Let’s look at four of them. First, the people in a healthy culture know the church doesn’t exist for its own self but for...
When Narcissism Comes to Church
Pastor Resources · Pastor Resources - Narcissism The beloved priest-psychologist Henri Nouwen wasn’t trying to define narcissism, but he might as well have been, when he wrote: The long painful history of the Church is the history of people ever and again tempted to...
Loving God with Our Minds: How the Brain Forms Character and Habits of Faith
Habits are patterns that have been practiced so many times that they develop high-speed connections in the brain—up to 200 times faster than connections forged through normal thinking. Habits of faith improve character and have three requirements: (1) practice, (2)...
The Gospel
Pastor Resources · The Gospel The word Gospel occurs multiple times throughout the New Testament. It’s first appearance is in Matthew chapter 4 and it’s last is in Revelation chapter 14 and most of the books in between use this phrase. Paul uses it more than...
Appreciating nature in your backyard
Pastor Resources · Appreciating Nature - Appreciating Nature I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how nature and creation has been really significant to us and to our family in these last few days. Like you, our lives have been turned upside down in...
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Pastor Resources · Can't We All Just Get Along “Can’t we all just get along?” became a popular saying after Rodney King uttered this question during riots in Los Angeles in 1992. Many would think these words are not needed in churches either because we have all...
Healthy marriage when you’re together
Pastor Resources · Healthy Marriage When You're Together 24.7 Like a lot of us, I’m stuck at home today. I’m blessed to be trapped here with my family. In fact, we’ve done a lot of things to try to make this new reality more enjoyable and more fun for all...
Glorious Finish
We are witnessing endless accounts of leaders who have received the flag of disqualification, raised the white flag of premature surrender, or thrown in the towel because of debilitating discouragement. No doubt, the complexities of modern ministry, the onslaught of...
When Blended Family Relationships Compete and Conflict
Blended family relationships naturally create loyalty conflicts—or maybe we could call them love conflicts. “Am I still loved? Who do you love more—your spouse/kids or me? Your old life or our new one?” What results is a household of competing relationships...
Analog Church
COMPARISON, COPYCATS, CARICATURES Today people have access to the best sermons and church music in the world, at the touch of their fingertips. So why don’t they just stay home and listen from the comfort of their beds on Sunday mornings? For those of us who...
HONESTLY, Did God Bring Us the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic?
Pastor Resources · HONESTLY - Did God Bring Us The COVID - 19 Pandemic A lot is being written about God's role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are suggesting that it is Divine retribution for mankind's wickedness. Others are promoting the idea that God is allowing...
Spiritual practices to calm your anxious brain
Pastor Resources · Charles Stone - Spiritual Practices To Calm Your Anxious Brain Hi, my name is Charles Stone and I’d like to talk to you about spiritual practices that can help us deal with our anxious brain because we’re living in a world of perpetual...
Understanding God’s Unfailing Love
Pastor Resources · Understanding God - Understanding God Hello, my name is Trillia Newbell and I am looking forward to talking to you about the hope we have in Romans 8. What interesting times we are in! I’m going to talk about one of the rhetorical questions...
Navigating your home during the unknown
Pastor Resources · Ron Deal - Navigating Your Home During The Unknown We are all trying to figure this out, without a doubt. This is uncharted territory. You can think of this as an unfamiliar wilderness. We don’t know which way to go. It’s helpful if you have...
